Internet Facing SharePoint 2010 Site with Windows Live ID–Part 1

In this series of post I will talk about how to allow Windows Live users to login to an internet facing SharePoint 2010 site. Most of the information can be found online, but I am putting them here in a form of a series to make it easy for who ever wants to implement the integration to find the information easily.

The first part of the series would be how to register and configure the site to use Windows Live ID as an authentication provider.

Registering with Windows Live ID

To use Windows Live ID authentication, the site should be registered first using the Microsoft Service Manager web application located at http://msm.live.com. Below are the steps needed to register the website for Windows Live ID Authentication

13. Scroll down until you see the Override Authentication Policy. Select MBI_FED_SSL from the dropdown.

14. Scroll up to the page and click the Submit button.

15. On the next screen, note down all the information on the screen, and then click the Yes button.

Certificates

Claims based authentication uses certificates for encryption and signing and we have to trust the certificate of the IP on the SharePoint servers. The following steps must be done on all WFE's in the farm.

3. In the Create New Web Application page, choose Claims Based Authentication from Authentication providers list.

4. Choose Create a new IIS website. Use the following values to fill the IIS Web Site fields (Replace the below with values that correspond to your website) Name: Contoso Public Portal Port: 443 Host Header: contoso.com

the LiveID-NT domain is the Windows Live testing environment, you create accounts on this environment for testing purposes. Once you finish and test your work, you can submit your website to Windows Live for compliance.

Once you get approved, you will be moved to the Windows Live production environment, users that already have a Windows Live ID will be able to login to your website.

Hope this helps.

Suhaib

19 Nov 2013 12:08 PM

Hi Wissam, thx for the great article, is this way work with twitter and gmail